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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Labor and Industrial Apr 28th, 2026

Labor & Industrial

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  • It starts to raise questions of due process.
  • It starts to raise questions of due process.
  • From now, or from the time we start our process.
  • It's simply that you don't have to go through this long process, sometimes a long process like you have
  • Do they look at claims cost in this process? Do they look at claims cost in this process?
KY
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  • Um I will start today of that process.
  • all of the different actuarial processes all of the different actuarial processes that<00:04:58.479
  • <00:14:42.560> to the LRC uh, to begin the process to the LRC uh, to begin the process to
  • process and timing and what can happen. process and timing and what can happen.
  • <00:22:03.039> to you know should there be a process to you know should there be a process
Summary: The meeting began with quorum, approval of the prior minutes, and an announcement that the June meeting had been canceled and replaced by this combined May/June meeting; the next official PPOB meeting was announced for July 21 at 2:30. Staff then gave an overview of the Public Pension Oversight Board’s required actuarial audit process, explaining that House Bill 238 requires a review every five years of the retirement systems’ actuarial assumptions and methods, funded by the systems themselves. The presentation distinguished this audit from a financial or forensic audit, described the three possible audit levels (full replication, limited/spot review, or basic review), and noted that the last audit in 2021 was a level one performed by Milleman Consulting at a cost of about $190,000. Members discussed timing for the next audit cycle, with a request to LRC likely needed in July or August to target the June 30, 2026 valuation, and several members expressed interest in another level one review. Questions also addressed whether prior audits found major issues; staff said the 2021 review was generally clean but recommended more consistency in reporting and assumptions across systems. The committee then welcomed new staff and interns, including Odet Guanzi of KPPPA and Team Kentucky intern Amamira Bowman. Bo Barnes of the Teachers Retirement System presented an overview of the statutory framework for reemployment after retirement under KRS 161.605. He explained that the law is intended to let retirees return to help with staffing needs, do so in an actuarially sound way through required contributions, and keep TRS compliant with federal tax rules for a qualified plan under section 401(a). Barnes described the required breaks in service and earnings limits for retirees returning part-time or full-time, including the three-month or 12-month break depending on the employer, the 6,900-day limit, and the daily wage threshold based on years of service. He also noted a lightly used critical shortage program that allows school districts to hire retirees without a wage cap, while still observing the break-in-service rules. Members asked questions about who decides the scope and level of the actuarial audit, how the audit would treat leave balances and other benefit-related items, and whether the prior level one audit identified substantial problems. Staff said the committee would request the audit, but LRC would handle contracting, and that the audit scope could include items like sick leave and annual leave costs if requested. On the reemployment topic, Barnes emphasized that the rules are designed to avoid pre-arranged retire-and-return arrangements that could jeopardize TRS’s tax-qualified status. No formal votes were taken beyond approving the minutes, and the meeting concluded with the presentations and discussion of these pension oversight issues.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:09:35.440> equitable process of developing an equitable process of developing an equitable
  • <00:49:29.520> and contracts have a grievance process and contracts have a grievance process
  • Is there a grievance process?
  • You know, so process? Who do I go to?"
  • What happened in the process?
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/17/25

Health Finance and Policy

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  • <00:20:22.000> meat farms but also in food processing meat farms but also in food processing
  • They are the number one stakeholder in this conversation, and throughout the conversation while we have
  • <00:35:36.599> and stakeholder in this conversation and stakeholder in this conversation and
  • 35:38.680> we throughout the conversation while we throughout the conversation while we have<00
  • That's at the heart of our conversation as it relates to service.
Bills: HF10, HF27
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • recording the N-number license marking of the roadable aircraft, combining the title and registration process
  • Barclay, this is industry-driven, and there was no previous statute that regulated this whole process
  • So I'm not educated enough on the insurance process and how it works.
  • So I'm not educated enough on the insurance process and how it works.
  • Like the earlier explanation of the vote, I think this went through the right process.
Summary: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee heard a series of transportation, traffic enforcement, and memorial bills. SB 1024, dealing with licensing and registration for roadable aircraft, drew a question about where vehicle license tax revenue would go, but with no sponsor present the committee still advanced it on a do pass recommendation by a 3-2 vote. SB 1205, which creates rules for private-property vehicle booting, was supported by industry and sponsor testimony as a consumer-protection framework modeled on towing laws; it passed 5-0 after discussion of time limits, recordkeeping, dispute resolution, and penalties. SB 1366, creating a temporary study committee on public-property towing and impound practices, was presented as a bipartisan, data-gathering measure and passed 5-0. SB 1232, a billboard/outdoor advertising zoning bill tied to military compatibility and ADOT permitting, was described as a technical cleanup measure negotiated with ADOT and local stakeholders; it passed unanimously 6-0. The committee spent the most time on SB 1624, which would cap photo-enforcement civil penalties at $75 and limit the effect of photo-radar violations on licensing and insurance. Supporters argued the bill would simplify enforcement and reduce reliance on cameras, while opponents from insurers and local governments warned it would mask risk, shift costs to other drivers, and reduce revenue for several state funds and local programs. An amendment was adopted to treat excessive speeding caught by photo enforcement as a class 3 misdemeanor and direct $15 of the penalty to the Peace Officer Training Equipment Fund. The amended bill then passed 4-2, with members citing concerns about school zones, revenue impacts, and the role of photo enforcement. The committee also advanced SCR 1004, a voter referral that would let Arizona voters decide whether cities may continue using photo enforcement; it passed 4-2 after testimony that it was a negotiated compromise preserving local control while requiring a future local vote in affected cities. The final items were memorials naming highways. SCM 1002 would rename a portion of State Route 77 the L.F. Quinn Memorial Highway, and SCM 1006 would rename a portion of U.S. Route 70 the PFC Michael A. Nolene Memorial Highway. Both were described as constituent-driven and appropriate under naming procedures, with members noting Quinn’s long-ago death and Nolene’s service as the first Native American to die in the Gulf War. Both memorials passed unanimously 6-0. Earlier in the meeting, SB 1010 and SB 1552 were announced as held, and the committee adjourned after completing the remaining agenda.
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Appropriations

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  • This is the combining of an existing program and putting in place a permitting process.
  • It's all part of the EO Executive Order 18 process of streamlining permitting.
  • I'm so pleased to be here today and glad that we're having this conversation.
  • She talked about how it's very much linked to the governor's process work to speed up permitting, and
  • this was part of a consensus process where everyone came together and worked together.
Bills: SB219, SB9
Summary: The House Appropriations Committee met to hear several bills, with members repeatedly reminded to focus on fiscal impacts rather than policy merits. The committee first considered SB 9 on freshwater wetlands, which would combine tidal and non-tidal wetlands programs into one permitting framework; supporters said the bill resulted from a two-year consensus process and that the governor’s office and DENREC would absorb a significant share of the cost. Public testimony was largely supportive, emphasizing flood control and ecosystem services, though one speaker opposed the spending. The committee voted to release SB 9. The committee then heard SB 278 on child care assistance, which would preauthorize summer camp for eligible school-age children and create a separate lower co-payment for half-day care. The sponsor and the YMCA of Delaware said the change would better align family co-pays with provider reimbursement and make before- and after-school care more affordable for working families. The committee also released SB 278, SB 168 on alcohol delivery for package stores, SB 120 on health insurance coverage for certain testing and treatment, and HB 4, a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools; HB 4 was described as having a near-$3 million fiscal note and a one-year implementation delay because it was not funded in the budget. Later, the committee approved SB 219, which gradually increases the military pension income tax exclusion from $12,500 to $25,000 over three years and includes related joint-filing and residency changes. Supporters argued it would help attract and retain military retirees and bring federal dollars into the state. The committee also released SB 1, a major primary care reform bill that would increase primary care spending and implement hospital payment reforms, with projected long-term savings to the state employee health plan, and SB 325, which expands background checks and wrap-back monitoring for fire service personnel and adds an investigator position for the Fire Prevention Commission. In each case, public commenters and committee members generally supported the bills, and all were released from committee by recorded vote.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules 2nd REVISED Apr 6th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Rules

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  • allow us to extrapolate how many voters, registered voters in Oklahoma, are participating in the process
  • In those conversations, when we explained to them that we are not reducing Medicaid expansion, we're
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Day 56 (3-31-26)

Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting

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  • today, I ask you as they serve our great commonwealth to serve under that reminder that their conversations
  • resolution confirming the appointment of Carrie Camille Capable to the Standards and Assessments Process
  • assessments process review committee. assessments process review committee.
  • to the standards and assessments process to the standards and assessments process review<00:08:40.479
  • Thanks for your patience as we navigate today, and that includes your lack of conversation among each
Bills: HB567, HB776, HB2, HB568, HB619
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Of course, I sit those conversations out.
  • Of course, I sit those conversations out.
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
  • The bill right now provides for reports as the process goes along. They want a little more detail.
Bills: HB59, SB15, SB96, SB104, SB137
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires disclosure before processing a child's data.
  • Social media inspires all kinds of conversations.
  • , and the appeal process will just be the normal appeal process that we already use in the workers' comp
  • the appeal process. removal of the outdated MCO appeal process and the appeal process will just be the
  • This statutoryizes and standardizes that process.
Bills: AB52, AB76, AB163, AB388, AB483
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

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  • Okay, so it would go through that whole process. Yes, sir.
  • More process and procedural questions about that? Okay.
  • And if you set up that collection process, are they required to provide the data?
  • That's not just conversations. That's not even arguments. I mean, that goes beyond those.
  • . conversations in schools.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

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  • That's a quick process. It usually only takes a matter of days.
  • , and that process is to be worked out through the rules setting process that the compact would go through
  • ICPC is clearly a broken process.
  • remains in place and we continue to use that process.
  • Um, I think we've had a robust conversation, but I would love to have more of a robust conversation to
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Judiciary

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  • So I'm still working through that process. both the policy logistics of how that would work, but also
  • And so I am working with all of these entities as the bill moves through the process. And Mr.
  • I hate talking about this, but these are conversations we've got to have.
  • And so, states are looking to standardize and make this a fairer process.
  • And that should be our goal in this process.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Higher Education Finance and Policy

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  • It provides a pipeline of talent for businesses and requires the department to review its processes to
  • I'm happy to have ongoing conversations about amending or adding to the bill.
  • I'm happy to have ongoing conversations about how we strengthen things.
  • About my education background, a lot of these conversations are happening already in high school.
  • Consider this a seed that is being planted to continue those conversations.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

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  • the department to review its processes the department to review its processes to<00:03:25.360>
  • um, happy to have ongoing conversations um, happy to have ongoing conversations about<00:24:57.919
  • A lot of these conversations background.
  • I will say those conversations.
  • lot of these community conversations lot of these community conversations around<01:27:06.800>